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same be referred to the City Attorney

same be referred to the City Attorney.
Adopted.
Recommended that the petition in
reference to the erection of fences on
Mission road be referred to the Street
Superintendent. Adopted.
A franchise was granted to T. f.
Rowan for a street railway heretofore
!described.
| ELYsIAN PARK.
City Attorney DAILY presented the
following opinion on the Soldiers
Home petition: " ,-Ar-
preciating, as | do, the watchful in
terest manifested by the Board OF
Trade for the welfare of your city,
their continual exertion in our behalf,
and particularly their patient efforts
since February last to secure to us the
location of the Branch Soldiers Home,
regret keenly, as | know many OF
you will, that there is an impediment
to acquiescence in their desire; that
visit our city in September the land
known as the Elysian Park Tract,
and for the following reasons; First
The power to purchase and hold real
property for public parties is expressly
! given to the corporation by article IL,
sec. Ii of the charter of the city. In
the exercise of this power the Council
OF the city, at its meeting of March
Both, 1886, by ordinance 10. 21S, or
dained: Sec. THAT the real property
| located in the city of Los Angeles and
owned by the city of Los Angeles,
, hereinafter described, is hereby set
apart for the public as a public park
aud is forever dedicated to the public
as such park. x all of the
land owned by the city of Los Angeles
in blocks II, AZ, 43, Al, 40, AZ, AZ
Hancock survey; also all the
lands belonging to the city OF
Los Angeles in the tract of land known
rs the Abila tract, approved April D,
1886, published April 7, 1886. The
dedication is then complete, the cor
poration being the owner, the use a
proper one, and the power being ex-
pressly given, and | know OF no i'm
piled or incidental authority to alien
or extinguish such public use when
once made" Received and filed.
A notice of intention to establish
the grade of Hope street was read and
adopted.
Resolutions establishing the grade
and improving portions of Pacheeo
street, Tenth street, West California
street, Amelia street, Bernard street,
Union avenue, Virgin street and
Diamond street, were read and
adopted.
The name of Virgin street was
changed to Alpine street.
Clerk iced was instructed to re-
advertise for all bids that had not
been answered.
THE CHINESE REMOVAL.
The Board of Education presented
the following protest.
To the Honorable Council of the City of
Los angeles:
misunderstanding that the pro-
posed location of the new quarters for
the Chinese is in the near neighbor-
hood of our schools on Alameda
street, and realizing that to the public
schools has been largely committed
by popular sentiment the conserva-
tion of the morals and correct princi-
Piles of the children and youth therein
gathered, we, the members of the
been committed the watch and guard
of our city schools, do most earnestly
protest against this movement. We
submit that the presence of this OBJ
noxious class in the near neighbor-
hood of these large and crowded
schools will greatly hinder all efforts
to educate these children into good
citizenship by thus familiarizing
them from their most tender years
with degradation and vice.
ANNA S. AvERILL, Sec'y.
JOSEPH KURTz, Prest.
CHAs. z. THURsroN.
+. S. GRAHAM.
City Attorney Daly's opinion on the
matter was as follows:
To the honorable, the Council.
GENTLEMEN 1t would seem to me
that the protest of the citizens against
the location OF China town ON the
property lying on Labory lane should
have been acted upon by committee
of your honorable body in conjunction
with the Health and Police Depart
ment of the city government, and all
the facts learned. But in view of the
interest aroused and with a desire not
to evade any responsibility thrust
upon me, | have learned some facts
and listened to many opinions, but
many of the most important ques-
tions for the guidance OF your honor
able body in determining upon the ac-
ton essential to the protection of the
rights of persons and property situate
i'll the vicinity of the proposed loca-
ton of Chinatown, must be deter
mined by your Health Officer, Chief
of Fire Department, City Surveyor,
Chief of Police, and your knowledge
of Chinatowns in the light of their
history past and present. 1t is.clearly
within the scope of your power-I will
add, duty-to protect all persons re-
siding within your city against that
which threatens their health, comfort
or welfare, and to enlarge this power
in municipalities the State constitu-
ton, Art. III. Sec. IL, gives to this city
the power to pass such police and sani-
tary regulations as do not conflict
with general laws. In this you have
ample power to abate any nuisance,
whether in a Chinatown or elsewhere,
and when you have, upon proper evil
dence, determined that nuisance has
been created, you may deal with it
effectually. 1t is, in my judgment,
time to determine that if the China
man is to remain amongst us he should
conform in degree to our mode of
habitation, or at least to some mode
not offensive to the senses and preju-
dicial to the public health. Your hon
orable body being fully informed as to
the condition of things in "Old China
town." have it fully within your power
by the adoption OF proper ordinances
and sanitary regulations, to prevent a
nuisance or Il state of things that, by